New Qantas Aircraft Promises Comfortable Flights Qantas has announced that its second new A330-200 aircraft offers passengers enhanced comfort and state-of-the-art entertainment in every seat.
Get Cash Back With Samsung Printers Samsung Australia is giving users up to $120 cashback for every printer or multifunction printer purchase.
New Quicken Software For Windows 7 Quicken has launched a new product line which consists of Personal, Personal Plus and Home & Business to help users keep a close eye on savings, expenses, and investments.
Shocking Numbers For Telco Complaints The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) has urged businesses to improve on their services as it had a 54 percent increase in the number of complaints this year.
Shares Up For Samsung Printers Samsung has beaten its rivals yet again, this time capturing over 23 percent of the global market for A4-sized multifunction printers in the second quarter of 2009.
Toshiba Recycles Your PCs Thinking of purchasing a new notebook but don’t know how to get rid of your old desktop or notebook? Toshiba announced that it will recycle your old PC/notebook and even give you $150 off the RRP of any notebook in its business range.
Acer Recalls Overheating Notebooks Acer has issued a voluntary safety recall of its Acer Aspire notebooks that may overheat under specific conditions.
Mobile Phones Now Used For Internet It seems that mobile phones are not just being used for calls and text messages, with a survey claiming that more than 75 percent of Australians now use their phones to access information.
1 In 5 Users Fall Victim To Cyber-Crime Symantec has found that an identity is stolen online every three seconds. This cyber crime is faster than crimes committed on the streets of New York City (every three and a half minutes) or on the streets of Tokyo (every two and a half minutes).
Harry Potter and the Vengeful Spam Researchers at BitDefender have detected a new wave of spam attacks focused around the release of the latest Harry Potter movie.
New Telstra Service Takes On Blackberry Microsoft and Telstra have announced a new business solution that will give users access to mobile ActiveSync e-mail, calendar, and contacts though Microsoft Exchange.
Notebooks & Netbooks Booming Big Growth Tipped The Australian notebook market that makes up the bulk of Asia Pacific sales is set to grow by 18.7% while netbook sales are set to grow by 64.6% according to new research from DisplaySearch.
Major Shake Up At Cisco Consumer EXCLUSIVE: In a major shakeup Cisco Singapore management is taking over the day to day operations of the Companies consumer division in Australia. It is also believed that the new Cisco Flip camera and new wireless audio system will not be launched in Australia till next year leaving a big dent in pre Xmas sales.
PC Market Tanks IDC has reported that PC sales have gone down 3 percent, with only 1.1 million units shipped in the first three months of this year.
Big Retailer Envious Of JB Hi Fi Say Westpac A senior Westpac economist has said that several retail groups including Wesfarmers and Woolworths are envious of the success of JB Hi Fi and are keen to “get a share” of the fast growing consumer electronics market. They also revealed that Clive Peeters outperformed JB Hi Fi during the past month.
Yahoo Cuts Nielsen Deal Yahoo has strengthened its relationship with Nielsen Online as it subscribes to its Market Intelligence service.
Plant A Tree By Recycling Your Mobile Australians can assist thousands of native animals by supporting the Old Phones, More Trees campaign by MobileMuster and Landcare Australia by simply recycling any old mobile phones during the month of May and until World Environment Day – June 5.
ASIC Set To Be Called In To Investigate Leisuretech Trade creditors of failed home automation group Leisuretech could be forced to pay back money to the administrator of the group following allegations of wrong doing by Leisuretech CEO Andrew Goldfinch. The company was placed into liquidation with debts of over $1.6 million dollars. The allegations claim Goldfinch deliberately paid out creditors with who he wanted to continue trading with under a new Company structure while not paying out others.
Leisuretch Directors Try To Cut Liquidation Deal Only hours before the administrator of the failed home automation group Leisuretech who own the A Bus patent, was set to recommend that the Company be placed into liquidation, he was approached with an offer to settle by the directors of the failed Company, however as of today no offer has been made.
Lenovo Scores NSW Netbook Deal Lenovo has partnered with the NSW Department of Education and Training to provide 220,000 netbooks to government secondary school students and teachers.
Broke Leisuretech Netting $750K A Year From A Bus Patents The administrator of the failed Leisuretech Australia distribution Company has admitted that there are “questionable issues” relating to the value of assets in the failed Company which was placed into administration with debts of over $1.6M dollars despite the fact that it was earning over $750,000 a year from A Bus patents.
Samsung Makes Big Investment In People And New IT Products Just when Sony is announcing layoffs Samsung has gone on a major hiring spree in an effort to kick-start their fledgling information technology division which will also encompass commercial products for the Pro AV market.
How Storage Companies Buy Storage Federal US prosecutors have accused storage giant EMC giant of paying illegal kickbacks and overcharging U.S. government agencies. Separately, another storage corporation, NetApp, has revealed that it expects to pay US$128 million to settle a government inquiry also related to alleged illegal overbilling.
PC Industry Set To Be Hit Really Hard The PC Industry that has witnesses good growth from demand for a new generation of notebooks is set to be hit hard claims research group Gartner who claim that the PC industry will experience its sharpest unit decline in history, with PC shipments totaling 257 million units in 2009, an 11.9 percent decline from 2008.
Consumer Electronics War JB Hi Fi Vs Dick Smith Looming A bitter consumer electronic war is set to break out as retail giant, Woolworths tries to curb the success of JB Hi Fi. After being rebuffed by the highly successful consumer electronics retailer in 2008 Woolworths is set to dump their Power House stores and take JB Hi Fi head on with a revitalised Dick Smith chain.
Netbooks Fire Up The Market New Touch Models Soon Small portable notebooks are hot say IDC but retailers claim they are not making "good" money from the devices. Overnight IDC has confirmed that ultra small, ultra cheap laptops are outpacing the rest of the PC industry and that demand for the popular device is unlikely to decline in 2009.
Lenovo Rolls Out Energy Efficient Gear In an effort to produce greener IT gear, Lenovo has launched new workstations that meet an Energy Star rating of 5. This means that Lenovo will now be offering more than 25 products that have the five star rating.
Schools To Get Millions For AV Pro And PC Gear Several distributors in partnership with custom installers are set to bid for contracts to fit out Australian schools with a new generation of presentation gear spanning projectors, mounts and screens and intelligent whiteboards, following a new round of funding from the Federal Government.
Canon Profits Crash Company To Restructure Canon, the world's largest digital camera maker, has joined the long list of Japanese electronics Companies that is in serious trouble after reporting an 81% fall in profits.
Telstra Wins A Friend In Taking On The Telecommunications Regulator Telstra won a friend today from no other than the Seven Media owned Unwired. In a statement issued earlier today the ISP said that Telstra's push for an overhaul of Australia’s telecommunications regulatory regime had recently gained significant support and that the regulator was holding back investment in new technologies and competitive services because of an outdated regulatory framework.
Belkin Products Described As Junk After Fake Reviews Exposed Serious questions are being asked today about the integrity of Belkin management and the quality of their products after a Belkin staff member claimed to a US web site that the products manufactured by Belkin were “junk".
Harvey Norman Facing Losses Of 40% Says Gerry Harvey Norman boss Gerry Harvey has told the Irish media that he cannot sustain losses of 40% and that he will have no alternative but to close some stores if the economic situation in Ireland does not improve.
Routers Offer 41 Percent Power Savings D-Link’s Xtreme N line of Wi-Fi Internet routers can now offer up to 41 percent power savings due to newly integrated D-Link Green Ethernet technology.
Lexar Memory Maker Described As A Junk Company Struggling memory supplier Lexar Media whose parent Company Micron Technology has been labelled as "Junk" is trying to drum up business in Australia with the appointment of Australian Photo Suppliers to push their Kodak branded memory.
Smartphones With Open-Source Platforms Gather Momentum Australian's love affair with the smartphone has grown 40 times over the past five years, according to latest figures from research company Telsyte. This means that nearly three in ten mobile phones sold this year will be smartphones.
Technology Industry Moving Into Recession Interest Rates To Fall The technology market is moving into recession according to research group IDC. However, some vendors will fare better than others depending on what service they provide with consumer electronics set to do better than mainstream IT.
Anti Telstra Campaigner Strikes Again Anti Telstra campaigner Paul Budde, who also parades as a telecommunication analyst, is at it again. This time he claims that The Federal Government should drop its 98 percent fibre-to-the node target for the National Broadband Network and start allowing for wireless broadband for the last 5-10 percent of that target.
IT Tsunami Set To Hit The credit crunch is set to wipe up to US$170 billion in global IT sales that will hurt Intel, Microsoft and other major technology companies, according to a Bloomberg report. A big freeze on both spending and credit will blanket the industry as analysts predict one of the worst ever downturns for IT.
Cybercrime Here To Stay Says Kaspersky Boss Last year, five malwares were detected every two minutes. But times have changed, with Kaspersky reporting that new malware is now produced every two seconds. These malwares are created by cybercriminals in order to profit and cause undue stress to unknowing victims.
Telstra Wants PM To Put Broadband First While Telstra welcomes the Prime Minister's commitment to fast-track much needed infrastructure building in Australia, the company stated that it wants high-speed broadband to be the first cab off the rank.
Koreans Invent USB Powered Toaster Scanner Now here is one for all the budding engineers at Breville and Electrolux. According to TechDigest, one of the nine finalists in this year's DesignLab competition was the USB Scanner Toaster, which can "print" news, weather, and even pictures onto bread.
Councils To Use Detection Technology To Grab Parking Revenue First they hid round corners now traffic wardens are using the latest in detection technology to nick people who overstay in a parking bay. And guess what? Local councils who lost millions in the recent Wall Street melt down are groveling to get their hands on the new money generator sensors
How Green Is Your PC? Not Much Says Greenpeace According to a number of reports, global PC manufacturers have still not figured out how to make a computer without using PVC (polyvinyl chloride) insulation and the far more toxic brominated flame retardants (BFRs), although there are some electronics manufacturers out there producing IT peripherals without having to use those chemicals at all, according to a new Greenpeace study.
GFK Forcasts 9% Growth For Second Half Only day after reporting that consumer electronic sales in the Asia Pacific region had grown 13% in the first half of 2008 leading research group GFK is now claiming that the markets for computer and consumer electronic goods is set to rise by 9% in the second half of the year.
Consumers Still Buying Technology Say GFK The worldwide markets for technical goods are continuing to expand, with consumer spending on audio, video, photographic, IT and telecommunications hardware forecast to rise by 9% to A$793 billion this year. It is also tipped that the Australian CE market will continue to grow despite predicted downturns.
Jobs Sickness Rumours Keeping Apple Down According to reports, the important role of Steve Jobs to Apple was again highlighted this week when another bout of concerns about his health led to a plunge of the company's stock.
Bad Economy Acting As PC Sales Driver Now here is a curly one for all the budding Keynesian economists out there—for according to Gartner, an increase of 16% in PC demand during this current harsh economic climate shows that an economic downturn is a driver and not an inhibitor for PC market growth.
Acer Looking To Bump Up Notebook Production According to a report in digitimes.com, with Acer is set to increase its notebook shipments in the third quarter to better compete with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, Wistron is expected to benefit the most from the plan.
Belkin Sweeps Top US Design Awards Belkin International has been recognised for its innovative and exciting product designs with two IDEA awards, by cosponsors Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and BusinessWeek, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
